What Stays On Tour...

David Marr has written for The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Saturday Paper, The Guardian and The Monthly, and has served as editor of The National Times, reporter for Four Corners and presenter of ABC TV's Media Watch. His books include Patrick White: A Life, The High Price of Heaven, Dark Victory (with Marian Wilkinson), Panic and six bestselling Quarterly Essays. His most recent book is Killing For Country: A Family Story. 

Kate Grenville is one of Australia’s most celebrated writers. Her international bestseller The Secret River was awarded numerous prizes and has been adapted for the stage and as an acclaimed television miniseries. Her other novels include Orange Prize winner The Idea of Perfection and the bestselling A Room Made of Leaves. Her recent non-fiction includes The Case Against Fragrance and Elizabeth Macarthur’s Letters. In 2017, Grenville was awarded the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature. 

Susan Johnson is an Australian author of literary fiction, memoir, short stories and essays. Her ninth novel, From Where I Fell, was published in 2021 and was shortlisted for the Voss Literary Award. She has lived in Hong Kong, Paris, London and most recently in Greece. Her latest book is Aphrodite's Breath.

Una Mannion lives in the northwest of Ireland and has won numerous prizes for her work. Her debut novel, A Crooked Tree, made the Irish bestseller list and won the Kate O'Brien prize. Her most recent novel is Tell Me What I Am. 

Pip Williams is the author of One Italian Summer, a critically acclaimed memoir of her family's travels in search of the good life. Her first novel, The Dictionary of Lost Words, based on her original research in the Oxford English Dictionary archives, was published in 2020 and became an international bestseller. The Bookbinder of Jericho is her second novel, a companion to The Dictionary of Lost Words.